On 2016-02-09 13:02, C. F. Howlett wrote: > Greetings Art Team et al: > > CALL TO ACTION: > > As you may recall, Set and I have been coordinating the Xenial Xerus > Wallpaper Contest. Voting begins 02/11/16 and concludes 02/15/16 > with final results publicized 02/18/16, i.e. Feature Freeze. >
I really appreciate you giving me credits, even though you clearly pulled the biggest part of this thing! Thank you cfhowlett!! :) > There are many moving pieces that must be correctly aligned to package > and submit the wallpapers before the impending Feature Freeze deadline. > I have no experience and little time to get up to speed with Ubuntu > packaging, so I request assistance to pre-stage and prepare. Ideally, > we can "simply" drop in the documenation and source wallpapers to create > a completed .deb package. > > As I understand it, the 14 pre-existing wallpapers should already be > fully documented and sourced. The incoming wallpapers must be > documented, sourced and packaged in advance of Feature Freeze. (Please > forgive the tight timeframe - inspiration for this effort came upon me > without regard to the release schedule.) I believe I am up to > documenting the wallpapers if someone can guide me but it would probably > be best if I hand the information off to an experienced packager! I don't know how to help here, yet, but i sure am interested in the process. Please include me in the process if there is time and space for that. > NOTE: > > The Art Team must select a default wallpaper! If I may be > pre-emptive, I heartily nominate Hotwheel from Li Hua Liu of the > Ubuntu-Kylin team. It's hot! It's cool! It's distinctive! It's > creative! It's Ubuntu Studio! See for yourself: h t t p s > ://flic.kr/p/CMaK5W I like it too! It contrasts well with the ubuntu studio-blue of the menu (todeloo, tatoo, i just had to :p :D) > > PROPOSAL: > > Package all wallpapers that are not selected. This gives all the > contributors a "win" and I have seen other *buntus do this. Perhaps > something like "UbuntuStudioXXCommunityWallpapers"? > I'm not against it if its do-able. :) It sure would be good for morale within the users. But do i understand right? You want 2 different packages? > HUMBLEBRAG: > > The Ubuntu 16.04 Free Culture Showcase launched on 12/16/15. At the > moment, this group has 26 entries. The Ubuntu Studio 16.04 > Wallpaper Contest launched 01/09/16 and has 69 entries as of this > writing. The level of user interest in our comparatively obscure > Ubuntu derivative suggests that there is a receptive audience. I > submit that we can and should find more ways to leverage this > interest to raise awareness of Ubuntu Studio. Good point! Perhaps its too late for this cycle? But a sort of... "sound font" contest maybe? Trying to find some cool alert-tones and such? :) > Thank you to Set, Kaj, and all others, named and unnamed, who have > helped out with this project! > :) Let's keep the ball rolling until the goal line!! You rock cfhowlett! Yours, -- Set Sakrecoer -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
